Sudarsan and his 45 students had taken nine days to carve the sandcastle whose base had a circumference of 530 ft.

The sculpture was made entirely by hand while machines were used during previous record attempts across the world.

By achieving the feat, Patnaik had broken the previous world record of tallest sandcastle, which was 13.97 m (45 ft 10.25 in) tall created by Ted Siebert (USA) of the Sand Sculpture Company and a crew of 19 on behalf of Turkish Airlines, in Virginia Key Beach, Miami, Florida, USA, on 27 October, 2015.